Movie

Everything old is new again. There’s a “Scream” trailer gaining buzz; “Halloween Kills” opens today in theaters and drops tomorrow on Peacock; there’s a “Chucky” TV show now! Given the landscape, it’s kind of surprising that...

My feeling about David Gordon Green’s reboot of “Halloween” in 2018 was that the talented director fundamentally misunderstood what worked about the John Carpenter original, draining the project of actual tension, despite a few solid set...

It could be argued that Leonard Maltin’s Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood is mistitled. Unlikely? Where else but Hollywood for the New York-born, New Jersey-raised lifelong film fan, self-described “television junkie,” silent film comedy and...

The epic tragedy about the deadly pain medicine Oxycontin, its maker and pusher Purdue Pharma, and America is far from over, but film and TV have started to comprehend the saga for wide audiences. Most recently, it was...

“No Time to Die” features just about everything that I would have hoped for in a sequel to “Spectre,” as well as in Daniel Craig’s final James Bond film. It brings back the classic, legendary Blofeld villain (whose rights...

Before IMDb and Wikipedia, while most people only thought of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) during Oscar season, the Academy provided a small haven for Los Angeles fact-checkers looking for quotes and...

After having to go virtual last year, the 57th edition of the Chicago International Film Festival offers viewers a cross between the old ways and the new normal. Running October 13-24, the festival will once again...

The 59th Annual New York Film Festival is in the books. Time for a post-mortem look at some revivals and notable films. Viewers were tempted by The Scottish Play, “The Power of the Dog” and Paul Verhoeven’s...

The 59th edition of the New York Film Festival struck me as unusually successful. And as soon as that thought crossed my mind—not far into the three-week event—I began wondering what prompted it. Was it the...

The acclaimed new documentary from directors Jon Siskel (nephew of Gene) and Greg Jacobs, “The Road Up,” will begin its premiere theatrical run at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., tonight, October 8th...